How can I read the ServletInputStream from a JSC application ?

Question

I have asked this question in a number of different ways on the forum without getting a solution that works. What I am trying to do should be a common thing in any business application, I just want to get the data posted to my application, which has been posted as an XML document.
Methods like getRequest(), getRequestParameterMap(), and getRequestMap() are just not doing it. These are not parameters sent with the URL, or parameters at all really, it is just an XML document sent in the body of the post request.
I have been trying to drill down to something that extends HttpServlet in the JSC architecture. I've done a lot of drilling, and haven't hit oil yet !
Joe Paladin

Answer 1

I tested it, and it worked ! I made some minor modifications, and corrected a little typo here and there, so I figured I would post the actual code that I have so far in my page's preRender() that goes and gets the data posted to the page. One improvement I still need to make is getting the actual length of the content, for some reason I had trouble calling getContentLength(). This should really get people going though who might be doing similar work with XML Servlets :
try {
HttpServletRequest httpreq = (HttpServletRequest)FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getRequest();
httpreq.getInputStream().readLine(inputbytes, 0, 100);
postData3 = new String(inputbytes);
} catch (Exception e) {
// report error
postData3 = "Error reading post data";
}